beginnerNetworking I: Services, Service Discovery & DNS

What is the relationship between ClusterIP, NodePort, and LoadBalancer?

They build in layers: ClusterIP provides base internal virtual IP. NodePort adds a port on every node. LoadBalancer adds a cloud-provisioned external LB pointing at the NodePort.

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